Word: orfeo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only to acquire productions from Europe and from such U.S. opera companies as St. Louis, Chicago and San Francisco but also to create new stagings of their own -- and starting in 1991, to collaborate on experimental productions with the Met. Planned for the first Met-BAM season: Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice and a new Adams opera based on the Achille Lauro hijacking...
...CONTINENTS. For Hall, it has been a rough year on the roller coaster of notoriety, after triumphs in 1982 at the National (including Harold Pinter's Other Places) and the Glyndebourne Festival Opera (where Hall directed Orfeo et Eurydice). But last November he staged Verdi's Macbeth at New York City's Metropolitan Opera to a gang of mostly abusive reviews. Then this summer Hall premiered his production of The Ring of the Nibelung at Bayreuth, and things were no sunnier there. The work opened to bad reviews and an audience that sounded, as one reviewer wrote...